
Starting into the drainage from the trailhead.

First rappel to get off the rim.

After some wash walking and quick snippets of narrows, we eventually made it into the meat of Hard Day Harvey Canyon.


We were pretty much immediately greeted by lots of stemming.

And of course some fun down-climbs.


The floor of the canyon was generally more narrow than a few feet higher up, so we mostly stemmed to avoid additional battering to our arms and shoulders.

Heading down deeper into Hard Day Harvey Canyon.






Some minor obstacles at first, which seemed to progressively get more difficult as the canyon continued.

A partner assist section.



It was slow-moving due to how narrow much of Hard Day Harvey Canyon was.





A fun talus cave avoids a rappel. Dan (red helmet, bottom right) is heading down the talus cave. Chris (top left) is inspecting the rappel in case the talus cave didn't go through, but it did.

Within the talus cave.

Short rappel.

Difficult climb out of a dry pothole.





More open section, a nice reprieve from the constant stemming and narrow slot.





A difficult chimney down-climb.

The crux of the canyon, in my opinion. Tanner is seen squeezing through a very narrow section of the canyon, but at the same time ascending. He and I both had a little trouble (wider chests lol) wiggling through.



End of the narrows.

Some fun potholes (dry on our visit) as we neared the end of Hard Day Harvey Canyon.

A fun downclimb into a pothole.

An almost identical pothole a few feet past the previously pictured one.

Nearing the junction of Hard Day Harvey Canyon and Good Day Jim Canyon.

Final rappel.

Continuing through the narrow, but not technical, ending of Hard Day Harvey Canyon.


Hard Day Harvey Canyon begins to widen.

View back into Hard Day Harvey Canyon.

We were stopped by this small cliff. We avoided it on the right via a social trail.

View back toward Hard Day Harvey Canyon. The cliff we are avoiding visible center.

After following the social trail, we located the escape route, Class 3. You can see Dan on the left heading to some Class 2/3 loose rock. Above this was some navigating around the slickrock.

Class 2/3 stuff.

View back down as we progress.

Close-up as we make it much higher along the escape route, Lake Powell visible top.

Slickrock landscape for a couple of miles. Henry Mountains visible top.

Beautiful slickrock.

View back along the slickrock wonderland.

We reached this cliff, keeping right around it.

A social trail that followed the base of the previously mentioned cliff. Eventually we ended up in a drainage.

We escaped the drainage via Class 3 slabs on the right (east) side of the drainage. From above the slab, we navigated the open desert back to the trailhead.
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